Greenlight for next two ESA Scout missions

ESA Approves Two Scout Science Missions

Europe is on a mission to prove that groundbreaking science can be done on the cheap. Yesterday, ESA green-lit two more Scout satellites, a growing fleet of low-cost, rapidly developed EO spacecraft launched to answer pressing scientific questions. The missions—Hibidis and SOVA-S—each cost less than €35M ($40.7M), and will be developed in under three years. “These missions demonstrate how agility and creativity can accelerate progress, deliverin…

ESA expands Scout missions programme with two new Earth observation satellites

ESA has selected two new EO Scout missions, Hibidis and SOVA-S, to study forest biodiversity and atmospheric gravity waves.

Greenlight for next two ESA Scout missions

The European Space Agency is expanding its growing fleet of Earth-observing science Scout missions with the selection of two new satellites: Hibidis and SOVA-S.Chosen from four final competing concepts, these missions will tackle very different but equally pressing scientific questions – from biodiversity below forest canopies to the effects of atmospheric gravity waves high above Earth.